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The National Health Service announced that Robert Coles will serve in the newly created chief information security officer role.

The National Health Service in England has announced two new innovator programs to accelerate the use of digital health tools that benefit patients and remove barriers slowing adoption of innovation.

Countries around the globe are dealing with legacy fax machines and the UK organization is looking to get rid of its devices by 2019.

The machine learning model uses 600 variables with patient's data whereas human-constructed models made predictions based on 27, researchers say.

The UK agency said the goal is to provide access to genetic testing to drive personalized treatments and enable interventions for the whole country.

The British Heart Foundation plans to appoint a convenor to drive efforts informing a proposal for the development of the new cardiovascular data science centre.

NHS Digital plans to engage with suppliers to help create a more flexible and competitive market for IT in general practice.

Firm identifies a series of barriers that the growing medtech industry will need to address and says interoperability is the hardest.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's charity is looking for startups to develop tech for healthcare.

“I think with regards to the definition of paper free, I would say we’ve now achieved it against the original timetable, which was 2018,” David Walliker, CIO at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust and Liverpool Women’s NHS FT, told BJ-HC.